| Name: | European Commission FP7 (I: Energy, Environment, Health, Information and Communication Technologies, Research Infrastructures) |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm |
| Country: | Europa |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/open-access-pilot_en.pdf |
| Effective date from: | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories) |
| Scope of policy?: | Whole funding |
| Funder pays for publication fees: | Yes (charged by direct or indirect costs) |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles |
| Versions of papers that may/must be deposited: | Author's peer-reviewed final draft, Publisher's version of record |
| When are accepted peer-reviewed papers to be deposited?: | At time of publication |
| Duration of permissible embargo prior papers being made freely available: | 6 months after publication |
| Copyright reservation (funders): | Retain copyright whenever is possible |
| Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | "...Where articles are to be published in non-open access journals, beneficiaries (in practice usually researchers) should ascertain that selected journals' copyright and licensing conditions allow for compliance with the open access pilot in FP7. This means that the selected journal must allow for deposit of the manuscript to a repository immediately upon publication, to be made open access within the specified embargo period. Where this is not the case, researchers should make their best efforts to negotiate copyright and licensing conditions that comply with the open access pilot in FP7..." |
| Where to archive?: | Central or subject repository, Institutional repository |
